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adjective
- 1. resembling a feather; feathery.
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The meaning of PLUMATE is having a main shaft that bears many small hairs or filamentous parts —used of bodily hairs, antennae, or similar structures.
2 meanings: zoology, botany 1. of, relating to, or possessing one or more feathers or plumes 2. resembling a plume; covered.... Click for more definitions.
Jun 19, 2024 · Definitions of plumate. adjective. having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft. synonyms: plumed, plumose. feathered. having or covered with feathers. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Plumate." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/plumate. Accessed 28 Jun. 2024. Copy citation.
1. (Zoology) of, relating to, or possessing one or more feathers or plumes. 2. (Biology) resembling a plume; covered with small hairs: a plumate seed. [C19: from Latin plumātus covered with feathers; see plume]
Plumate definition: resembling a feather, as a hair or bristle that bears smaller hairs.. See examples of PLUMATE used in a sentence.
Plumate definition: Resembling a plume or feather.
The earliest known use of the adjective plumate is in the 1820s. OED's earliest evidence for plumate is from 1826, in a text by William Kirby, entomologist and naturalist, and William Spence, political economist and entomologist.
Verb [ edit] plūmāte. second-person plural present active imperative of plūmō. Categories: Latin non-lemma forms.
plumate / ˈpluːmeɪt-mɪt /, plumose adj of, relating to, or possessing one or more feathers or plumes resembling a plume; covered with small hairs : a plumate seed
After breakfast he dusted the glass over these portraits himself with a cloth, and brushed the oil painting of his wife with a plumate kept suspended from a small brass hook by the side of the heavy gold frame.
